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Infrared data from NASA's Terra satellite found the area of strongest storms in weakening Tropical Cyclone
Sanba
when it was over the island of Palawan. Infrared light provides valuable temperature data to forecasters and cloud top temperatures give clues about highest, coldest, strongest storms within a hurricane.

Manila - The death toll from a tropical storm that struck the
Philippines
has risen to nine, officials said on Wednesday, as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding. Landslides and flash floods brought by Tropical Storm
Sanba
struck the main southern island of....

MANILA: The death toll from a tropical storm that struck the
Philippines
has risen to nine, officials said on Wednesday (Feb 14), as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding. Landslides and flash floods brought by Tropical Storm
Sanba
struck the main southern....

Residents walk through flooded rice fields in Cantilan, Surigao Del Sur province,
Philippines
February 13, 2018 in this still image obtained from social media video. — Reuters pic MANILA, Feb 14 — The death toll from a tropical storm that struck the Philippines has risen to nine, officials said....

MANILA (AFP) - The death toll from a tropical storm that struck the
Philippines
has risen to nine, officials said on Wednesday (Feb 14), as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding. Landslides and flash floods brought by Tropical Storm
Sanba
struck the main....

Manila: The death toll from a tropical storm that struck the
Philippines
has risen to nine, officials said Wednesday, as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding. Landslides and flash floods brought by Tropical Storm
Sanba
struck the main southern island of....

Manila (AFP) - The death toll from a tropical storm that struck the
Philippines
has risen to nine, officials said Wednesday, as some of the thousands of displaced residents returned home with floods receding.
Landslides and flash floods brought by Tropical Storm
Sanba
struck the main southern....

TROPICAL STORM Basyang (international name:
Sanba
) has “slightly weakened” into a depression as it swept through south-central
Philippines
, leaving at least four people dead and almost 4,000 stranded in various seaports. Weather bureau PAGASA said the rain brought by Basyang has been coupled by a surge of the northeast monsoon.

Four people were
killed
in the southern
Philippines
early Tuesday as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said.
Tropical Storm
Sanba
slammed the east coast of the main southern island of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometres (47 miles) an hour.

MANILA: Four people were
killed
in the southern
Philippines
early Tuesday as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. Tropical Storm
Sanba
slammed the east coast of the main southern island of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75km/h an hour.

A resident gathers belongings from their flooded house after a tropical depression hit Loboc town on January 2, 2018. Four people were
killed
early on Tuesday as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides. Michael Ligalig / AFP.

PACIFIC. Tropical Cyclone Gita passed Samoa on 10 February and Niue on 11 February, with damage and localized flooding reported in Samoa. TC Gita is forecast to strike Tonga on the evening of 12 February. As of 12 February, 12:00 UTC, TC Gita continues to move west as a Category 4 cyclone with winds....

Hanoi (VNA) – At least four people were
killed
after the tropical storm
Sanba
landed in the east coast of the southern of Mindanao, the second largest island of the
Philippines
, on February 13, with gusts of 75 kilometres an hour. Heavy rain brought by Storm Sanba triggered landslides that hit....

Four people were
killed
in the southern
Philippines
early Tuesday as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. Tropical Storm
Sanba
slammed the east coast of the main southern island of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometres an hour.

Manila - Four people were
killed
in the southern
Philippines
early Tuesday as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. Tropical Storm
Sanba
slammed the east coast of the main southern island of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometres (47 miles) an hour.

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Four people were
killed
in the today as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. Tropical
Sanba
slammed the of the main southern island of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kilometres an hour. The heavy rain triggered landslides that hit mountain....

OVER 500 families from the Caraga region were evacuated due to the effects of Tropical Storm Basyang (international name
Sanba
), the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said Tuesday, February 13. In its update, the NDRRMC said a total of 528 families or 1,829 persons....

MANILA (AFP) - Four people were
killed
in the southern
Philippines
early Tuesday (Feb 13) as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said. Tropical Storm
Sanba
slammed the east coast of the main southern island of Mindanao Tuesday with gusts of 75 kph.

Residents wade in floodwaters brought by monsoon rain, intensified by tropical storm Trami, in Kawit town of Cavite city, south of Manila August 19, 2013 MANILA, Feb 13 — Four people were
killed
in the southern
Philippines
early this morning as a tropical storm unleashed heavy rain and triggered deadly landslides, police said.

I. SITUATION OVERVIEW. 11 February 2018. At 5:00 PM, the Tropical Depression (TD) outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) has intensified into a Tropical Storm (TS) and is expected to enter PAR in the evening. Tropical Cyclone Warning Signal (TCWS) #1 is raised over Dinagat Islands,....

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